How We Are Growing Organs In The Lab? | Dr. Jim Wells | TEDxCincinnati

Over 116,000 people in the US are on organ transplant waiting lists because of a shortage in healthy donated organs. Dr. Wells and his team have been harnessing the power of stem cells to grow miniature versions of human organs in the laboratory. Today, mini organs are being used to help diagnose patients and improve care and Dr. Wells and colleagues are working to generate lab grown organs for future transplantation into patients. Screen reader support enabled. FB: James Wells, LinkedIn:James Wells As a Developmental Biologist, Jim Wells has spent the past two decades trying to uncover how a single cell gives rise to tissues, organs and eventually a whole organism. With this information as a roadmap, he has pioneered approaches to generate mini organs (organoids) from stem cells in the laboratory. Dr. Wells is now part of a team that is using tissue engineering to generate bigger and more functional organs in the lab that can be used for transplantation into patients in the future. Dr. Wells is a professor of Pediatrics at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He is in the Division of Developmental Biology and where he established the human pluripotent stem cell facility. He is also the Director for Basic Research in the Division of Endocrinology and was appointed Chief Scientific Officer of the Center for Stem Cell and Organoid Medicine. As a Developmental Biologist, Jim Wells has spent the past two decades trying to uncover how a single cell gives rise to tissues, organs and eventually a whole organism. With this information as a roadmap, he has pioneered approaches to generate mini organs (organoids) from stem cells in the laboratory. Dr. Wells is now part of a team that is using tissue engineering to generate bigger and more functional organs in the lab that can be used for transplantation into patients in the future. Dr. Wells is a professor of Pediatrics at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He is in the Division of Developmental Biology and where he established the human pluripotent stem cell facility. He is also the Director for Basic Research in the Division of Endocrinology and was appointed Chief Scientific Officer of the Center for Stem Cell and Organoid Medicine. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@SoulGook]

I like these sorts of applications that take partial steps towards a larger goal (growing whole organs), and finding an application for that step all by itself. Using organoids as a diagnostic model is a neat idea that advances both short term and long term goals.

[@IjatoValour-zy9ro]

Thanks for sharing Jim, this is the future of medicine. Why can't these stem cells regenerate in the human body without having to create them in the lab?

[@Ecojami102]

Fascinating work that you are doing. Thank you for working on these solutions. Great talk!

[@michellecostanzo620]

Amazing work being done at CCHMC by Dr. Wells! Organoids are our future and I can’t wait to see what’s next!

[@prudencesanders244]

You and your Team are amazing, Dr. Wells. I am hopeful.

[@audreyjacobs6224]

Thank you Jim for giving us a glimpse of how science can and will heal the world!

[@michaelhorgan9525]

This is the future of medicine right here.

[@mahsazabihi4361]

Great talk i really really enjoy

[@NetworkNebula]

I hope these advancements are brought to the public sooner rather than later

[@aayangondal9693]

i like how the microphone is taped to his face.

[@atharvachopde9716]

Imagine if us military budget was allocated to science

[@zachlindsey71]

​@Divinely Blessed that's called communism.

[@nevinwilliams2]

I believe without the military another authoritarian country would invade the US and this scientific goal would die immediately.

[@darrylthompsonii3301]

Go Go Go Go !!!!

[@debbiesongMANDA]

Well done specific designs to cure disease.

[@unnamed8395]

Taped the microphone to his face😂

[@mcjesus5603]

This stuff plus crispr cas9 might end aging

[@robertshrewsbury2891]

Clone me some disks for my back, I am only 71 years of age and need new disks !

[@zestamore]

If people could create organs couldnt we eventually create artifical species and new species never invented especially humans or upgraded humans at any stage of life? It is weird but it seems like science is going in this direction

[@zestamore]

This would also mean that at some point in the evolution of science, we should be able to manipulate our bodies to the point that we could actually grow our brains in many ways causing an extreme evolution of literally everything, industrial evolution, ethical solutions evolution, social science evolution, species evolution, inventive evolution. Wed basically be able to put "evolution" in front of every word if science continued to go in those direction to great extremes.

[@neelamdugar8427]

What is the study of this organ growing thing called

[@LM_25_11]

Are we any where near to develop limbs and eyeball this way

[@cliftondavis7011]

It's has too be a very clean investment

[@sonarbuge7958]

8:19 Why does he make that noise

[@jonadol]

He was doing it again at 9:00. I think it was his throat saying thank you to the applause

[@andriisiahrovskyi1128]

My sun has a heart decease it would be nice if we can grow him a new heart in twenty years.

[@p3ngine]

Wish you luck mate , Stay strong 😇

[@legend0663]

hi

[@jeffcontreras8517]

I wish this person can make organs as of right now we're heading into decades and I feel like so many people would want a second chance just like me does this give me hope yes but one thing I know is that the government won't allow you to live past 80

[@EvilDaveCanada]

VOTE OUT OF OFFICE ANYONE WHO TRIES TO SLOW DOWN OR STOP THIS TECHNOLOGY OR ANY REASON INCLUDING RELIGIOUS REASONS. ANYONE WHO DOESN'T LIKE THIS TECHNOLOGY CAN REFUSE TO USE IT AND DIE !!!!

[@brutallyhonestguy5985]

So many kidney patients waiting for bio artificial kidney

[@cliftondavis7011]

Don't you just grow them in a 3d printer using tissue cells in a 0gravity environment in the darkness and even in a vacuum like space

[@wiczus6102]

Why aren't we funding this?

[@cliftondavis7011]

Call Elon Musk as partner

[@govindmatondkar7502]

God : I am going to loose my job soon 🤦

[@StaThinkTite]

Who taped a Mic to this guy's face?

[@choysum9030]

I did. He kept trying to swallow it so I taped it to his chin hair.

[@johnlo580]

unfortunately, if u need an organ asap, then your s out of luck

[@marcuskinsella1740]

Thats true. Time is what kidney patients need dialysis kills them

[@JG-wr7bh]

o thanks. nature has given us a mortal life, not an artificially prolonged one. there are enough people who are attached to their lives but we are normal people. the example with the sick children is totally exaggerated, that's what makes the whole thing palatable for everyone. especially if there are so many sick children and then you have to ask yourself why are the children sick or why can this woman only bring sick children into the world. artificially preserving or extending life is not natural and new diseases will definitely occur. man is mortal and nobody should play god. Power and greed is always a bad advisor, history is full of it and, as always, man learns nothing from it.

[@user-nm3gz9ck5g]

Hello! Do you think there will be technologies in the future where it will be possible to grow real human ligaments and tendons?